2018 British Touring Car Championship

Colin Turkington, the 2018 Drivers' Champion
Start of a race at Brands Hatch.

The 2018 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship (commonly abbreviated as BTCC) was a motor racing championship for production-based touring cars held across England and Scotland. It was sponsored by Dunlop.[1] The championship featured a mix of professional motor racing teams and privately funded amateur drivers competing in highly modified versions of family cars which were sold to the general public and conform to the technical regulations for the championship. The 2018 season was the 61st British Touring Car Championship season and the eighth season for cars conforming to the Next Generation Touring Car (NGTC) technical specification. The 2018 season also marked the 60th anniversary since the series’ introduction.[2]

The thirty races held during the season saw seventeen different drivers win a race, setting a new championship record. Six drivers won their first race, but Jason Plato went through a season without winning a race for the first time since his debut in 1997. Colin Turkington claimed his third BTCC title and his first since 2014.

  1. ^ "Dunlop Continue Strong Partnership With BTCC". British Touring Car Championship. TOCA. 18 March 2014. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  2. ^ "60th anniversary BTCC calendar announced". British Touring Car Championship. TOCA. 26 May 2017. Retrieved 26 May 2017.